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My creative process is in no way good or efficient, but if you’ve ever wondered how an author creates and publishes a story, this is how this particular one does it. At some point, I will write out a concise step by step process on how to get a short story published. It will leave out the self-doubt and emotional turmoil. It will neatly describe the way the process should be done by perfect, unfeeling, robot writers. This is not that process. Step 1: Inspiration This step is

Although, fiction writers create stories from pure imagination, it’s important to make those stories feel real, so you have to get the real-world details right. When writing fiction, I find myself looking up the most bizarre facts. I mean, needing to know the distance between Earth and the Proxima Centauri isn’t too odd for a science fiction writer, but I’ve also had to look up how streets were constructed in China during the rule of Empress Gao. See, the thing is, you can’t